Advanced Spanish Vocabulary

CONTENIDO: Grafías y grafemas representativos de sibilantes en documentos dominicanos de los siglos XVI y XVII / Micaela Carrera de la Red / - Grafías cultas en las variantes del Rimado de palacio de P. López y Ayala y de los Soliloquios del Fr. P. Fernández Pecha / - La variable sexo y las grafías de los hablantes bonaerenses en los siglos XVIII y XIX / María Beatriz Fontanella de Wienberg / - Diacronía de las alternancias gráficas / Ángeles Líbano Zumalacárregui / - Normas gráficas y variedades orales en el leonés medieval / José R. Morala Rodríguez / - Sibilantes en la...

A boy who wants to be a magician is captured by trolls, discovers a magic wand, rescues a princess, and finds out who he really is.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.

"This volume (written entirely in Spanish, with English abstracts) contains 17 studies on a variety of aspects of Spanish in the United States, including topics such as: a socio-demographic analysis of the US Hispanic population, bilingual first language acquisition of English and Spanish, cross-generational maintenance of Spanish, steps toward a dialectology of US Spanish, dialect contact in the United States, conceptual convergence with English in the speech of US Hispanics, Spanglish as an identity marker, language policies in the US health delivery system to Hispanics, and several...